Yesterday's Cable.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7079, 27 February 1893, Page 1

Yesterday's Cable.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ) (Per Press Association.) (Received C. 30 p.m.. Feb. 2Gth.) THE GOVERNOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES. London, Feb. 25 The comments of the Conservative press generally are averse to the appointment of the Hon. R. W. Duff as Governor of New South Wales The St James' Gazette states that the Government failed to get a Liberal Peer, anil were not patriotic enough to appoint a Conservative, therefore they perpetrated a job. THE GATESHEAD SEAT. The election for Gateshead, the vacancy for which was caused by the sitting member, the Hon. Walter H. James, Liberal, taking his seat in the House of Lords on the death of his father, Lord Northbourne, resulted in the return of Mr Allan, the Home Rule candidate, by a majority of 868. THE HORSHAM SEAT. The election for Horsham, caused by the death of Sir W. Barttlet, resulted as 1 follows :- Mr Johnstone, Conservative, 4150; Mr R, G. Wilberforce, Liberal, 2606. MR WILSON’S REPLY TO SIR SAUL SAMUEL. Mr Wilson, of the Standard replies to the letter of Sir Saul Samuel, published in the Westminster Gazette, contemptuously adhering to everything be had previously written. He ridicules the value of land rearing only one sheep to ten acres, and states that there are great stretches of land in New South Wales unable to be let at Id per acre. The funded loan scheme, he says, is still a fiasco, for it is probable that much of the money will be subscribed by English companies or, coming again to the London market is probable. The colonists, he believes, will not view his criticism like Sir Saul Samuel, and the Premier’s pledge not to borrow on the London market until credit is restored is mere hocus pocus. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. San Francisco, Feb. 25. A man named Ratcliffe to-day shot Mr Mackay, the American silver king, in the back and then committed suicide. Mr Mackay, who is only slightly wounded, declares that he had no previous knowledge of Ratcliffe. APPEAL REJECTED. Paris, Feb. 25. The Court of Cassation has rejected the appeal of MM. Charles de Leasepa, Foutaine, Cotter, and Eiffel, against the indictment for bribery framed by the Chamber of Deputies, and the cases will be tried at the next assizes. (Received 0.30 a.m., Feb. 27th.) “ AS OTHERS SEE US.” London, Feb. 26. The Earl of Meath, in an article in the Nineteenth Century , on the Australasian colonies, says that the working man is a despotic king in New Zealand, where capital is weakest, chiefly owing to absentee bondholders, and that only poor men are runholders, clergymen, and clerks. In the Australian colonies, on the other hand, he says that capital has been victorious after a hard struggle. He states that he has never heard of good work being done in any colony possessing manhood suffrage, but there were frequent complaints that the legislators were of an inferior type as compared with those of the early days. The Earl adds that a clergyman in New Zealand informed him that be bad to submit to most foul language from members of his vestry, who held the purse-strings. In concluding he says that large classes of colonists are affectionately loyal to the Mother Country, and only need an occasion to astonish the world.